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by xorcist 4mo ago
To be fair the US is a bit on an outlier here, as it is not afraid to come down on US companies for things subsidiaries do in other jurisdictions, on questionable grounds. So it would not be enough for Let's Encrypt to operate a Europe
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by xorcist 4mo ago
> I trust governments much less that a conglomerate of competing corporations Let's not create a world wide PKI based on a political ideology. > country-issued certificates [...] every government will absolutely double-issue cert
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by xorcist 4mo ago
That's .. pretty much how the home computers of the era worked? BASIC in ROM doubled as the shell on many (most?) systems. It's also how the file manager in the article works. You only use line numbers in BASIC when typing in comp
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by xorcist 4mo ago
Jira contains discussion and requirements. It can meander for months before the right action is chosen. It can be important to have background, but it replaces the mailing list discussion that led up to the change, it does not replace the c
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by xorcist 4mo ago
Also the fact that every search function since the dawn of interactive computing can search for whole words only (like -w in grep or C-w in emacs).
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by xorcist 5mo ago
> maintaining a secure browser that isn't a fork of chrome is a tall ask these days > maintaining a secure browser that isn't a fork of konqueror is a tall ask these days FTFY
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by xorcist 5mo ago
I'd like to believe I have an inkling, having done a fair bit of teaching. Still, imagine how hard other skills are to acquire. How much civil engineering can you learn in two weeks? How much violin playing? But you could absolutely ge
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by xorcist 5mo ago
ESG is supposed to be about valuations, long-term. People conventiently tend to forget that when it doesn't suit them. It has been shown over and over again that it is a working predictor of valuation, in which it is not alone of cou
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by xorcist 5mo ago
> In practice, GPL is pro-user, BSD/MIT is pro-business. Yet every time a GPL licensed product competes against a BSD licensed product in an open market, even when inferior the GPL product wins in the long run. That's because t
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by xorcist 5mo ago
Hot on the heels of Comanche was MARS.EXE which did was a voxel-like heightmap landscape renderer in a 4k intro. Previous discussion with plenty of background and links to similar software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by xorcist 5mo ago
Having handled Word documents a few times in my years, oh, how I wish this was true.
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by xorcist 5mo ago
Anybody who has ever done programming professionally in the small scale knows this. Refining the requirements is the job. In fact, I've never known an industry so keen on levelling its own moats as the software industry. We regularly
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by xorcist 5mo ago
This happens all the time. Ferrari taking inspiration from BYD is certainly brave, but it there is a fine line between bravery and good old stupidity. As the saying goes: It's good to keep an open mind, just not so open your brains fal
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by xorcist 5mo ago
Earlier today there was a large thread on HN about the golden age of child rearing, from time immemorial to about two decades ago, when children started getting sent home and parents got a stern talking to from the police, just for owning a
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by xorcist 5mo ago
What constitutes an all-powerful government? It seems rife for a no-true-scotsman argument. Would it be acceptable for a private company to own this information? Perhaps sell it to others?
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by xorcist 5mo ago
It's nice that Google's AI summary always lists its sources. It's less nice that those sources more often than not do not corroborate the summary. It often seems to be a few random links thrown in there for good measure. I ha
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by xorcist 5mo ago
That's the thing though: We can't know that.
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by xorcist 5mo ago
A tire repair shop that also hosted a the National Tire Slashing Club for free in the back? I think it's fair to assume that would cause some reactions.
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by xorcist 5mo ago
Can you seriously see no space between hosting people advertising DDoS-for-hire services and arbitrarily censoring the Internet? Is this what passes as civil discourse these days? That's especially rich considering that Cloudflare is t
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by xorcist 5mo ago
It's been a well known story around Cloudflare from the beginning that they protect booters and other cybercrime actors just like any other (paying or non-paying) customer. If you report the DDoS-for-hire actors that offer their servic
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by xorcist 5mo ago
The article describes a method of securely seeding private key data to newly provisioned servers. It's a bit of bootstrapping problem, and not something a PKI can solve. You usually need some form of trusted communication with a new se
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by xorcist 5mo ago
It was not essential to the exploit, but that does not mean it was irrelevant. More commonly used libraries are watched harder. The exploit was made much, much , worse by its indirect use by way of systemd. Approximately nobody wanted that
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by xorcist 6mo ago
Unregulated gambling, mind you. Huge difference.
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by xorcist 6mo ago
While not native, svk got pretty popular already in 2005, at a time when git was not used much outside LKML. Github wouldn't be released for a couple more years, which had a huge part in git dominance. Bazaar, darcs, Mercurial were all
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by xorcist 6mo ago
Before a new currency exists, it doesn't exist. Someone has to mint it. It has to be inflated into existence, in the monetary sense. How is this done? For a state or central bank the answer is obvious: The state or bank itself prints i
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by xorcist 6mo ago
You could always keep a local svn repository and commit to that, if you really wanted to commit without connectivity. But in practice most people don't, as evidenced by the success of github, which grinds many development processes to
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by xorcist 6mo ago
> ATM was superior but lost to the simpler and cheaper Ethernet which was pretty crappy in its early days (thinnet, thicknet, terminators, vampire taps, AUI, etc.) Aren't you confusing LAN and WAN here? ATM didn't lose to thinn
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by xorcist 6mo ago
A bit, perhaps, but not much. At the time of bang paths, smtpd was just one of several email protocols in use. And X.400 was absolutely a competitor at the time. A decade or two later, when it was clear that smtp had become the least common
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by xorcist 6mo ago
The point was that a $100k+ compensation for a software office work is among the highest in the world . If a comparison with another high compensation area falls flat, then maybe that says something. Perhaps another US state would have bee
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by xorcist 6mo ago
This comes off as slightly on the entitled side. Yearly salaries at $100k+ is very high by Western European standards. I can only imagine what our Eastern European colleagues would feel about it. If you can live a comfortable life and send

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